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Huw Morris

Partner (Advertising Commercial Inclusion) - Lee & Thompson LLP | Trustee - Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures | Ambassador - Classical Pride | Patron - Queer Britain | Board Advisor - TLC Lions | Investor - myGwork, Swypes

📍 London, England, United Kingdom🔄 Updated November 2026💼 2 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2017
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Sep 2017
myGwork is the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community. Our mission is to make the workplace more inclusive for all by providing individual users and partner organizations access to a wide eco-system of services, including job opportunities, training, mentoring, employer branding, and free community events. Joining the platform is free for individual members, which supports myGwork’s goal of ensuring that the platforms benefits are as accessible and as far-reaching as possible. Corporate members get a tailored service, with carefully curated product packages to help them achieve all their DE&I goals. myGwork organizes two annual events, WorkFair – the largest virtual global career fair for the LGBTQ+ professionals, graduates and students, and WorkPride – a week-long global conference for the LGBTQ+ business community and allies during Pride Month. The company also recently launched the myGwork Academy, delivering practical and relevant LGBTQ+ training education to help create inclusive workplaces for all. For more information, check out www.mygwork.com.
Outvertising Board Member
Sep 2016
We are the not-for-profit LGBTQIA+ advertising and marketing, advocacy group. We are all industry volunteers on a mission to drive LGBTQIA+ equality. We are here to promote more, positive LGBTQ representation in advertising We are also here to promote positive LGBTQIA+ role models. We are here to agitate, educate, demonstrate and celebrate all things LGBTQIA+ in ad land.
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2021
Board Trustee, Trustee Sponsor of Green Adventures Working Group
Aug 2021
New Adventures is an iconic and ground-breaking British dance-theatre company, famous for telling stories with a unique theatrical twist. We create world-class productions and engaging projects, reaching thousands worldwide. For over 30 years Matthew Bourne and New Adventures have delighted, inspired and nurtured people of all ages: audiences, artists and the next generation.
2017
Investor
Sep 2017
myGwork is the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community. Our mission is to make the workplace more inclusive for all by providing individual users and partner organizations access to a wide eco-system of services, including job opportunities, training, mentoring, employer branding, and free community events. Joining the platform is free for individual members, which supports myGwork’s goal of ensuring that the platforms benefits are as accessible and as far-reaching as possible. Corporate members get a tailored service, with carefully curated product packages to help them achieve all their DE&I goals. myGwork organizes two annual events, WorkFair – the largest virtual global career fair for the LGBTQ+ professionals, graduates and students, and WorkPride – a week-long global conference for the LGBTQ+ business community and allies during Pride Month. The company also recently launched the myGwork Academy, delivering practical and relevant LGBTQ+ training education to help create inclusive workplaces for all. For more information, check out www.mygwork.com.
Partner (Advertising), Head of Commercial, Executive Sponsor of the Inclusion & Belonging Network
Aug 2017
Lee & Thompson is one of the UK’s leading law firms for the media, technology and creative industries. Combining an open minded and personal approach with an in-built drive to succeed for our clients. Expect excellence as standard. Since 1983, we have represented the interests of talented individuals and innovative businesses, while always prioritising two things - building a firm that understands the interdependence of the creative industries and being relentless when it comes to meeting the needs of all our clients, no matter how these needs develop and change.  We believe that this approach has allowed us to remain firmly at the top of our game. Building on our unparalleled, long-standing reputation in music, film and television, the recent years have seen the firm diversify into a broad range of work across the many sectors that comprise the creative industries, with particular strength in interactive entertainment, advertising & marketing, live events & exhibitions, fashion, publishing, sport and technology, all with an overarching focus on the digital experience affecting all sectors.  We count international media organisations, major brands, rights owners, production companies, design houses, record labels and media & tech entrepreneurs as clients as well as acting for many of the world’s most successful creative talent. Alongside our commercial/IP lawyers, we also have a highly experienced team of litigators, corporate and employment lawyers adept at dealing with the diverse spectrum of challenges that can face our clients.
2016
Outvertising Board Member
Sep 2016
We are the not-for-profit LGBTQIA+ advertising and marketing, advocacy group. We are all industry volunteers on a mission to drive LGBTQIA+ equality. We are here to promote more, positive LGBTQ representation in advertising We are also here to promote positive LGBTQIA+ role models. We are here to agitate, educate, demonstrate and celebrate all things LGBTQIA+ in ad land.
2010
Senior Associate, Head of UK Advertising (Entertainment & Media Industry Group)
Mar 2010
At Reed Smith, everything we do is to apply our global experience in law to drive progress for our clients, for ourselves and for our communities. We are focused on outcomes, are highly collaborative and have deep industry insight. When combined with our local market knowledge and innovative mindset, this allows us to anticipate and address the needs of our clients and help them achieve their goals. Our team of 3,000 people (including more than 1,600 lawyers) operate across more than 30 offices in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.